Hilbert's `Foundations of physics': gravitation and electromagnetism within the axiomatic method

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2007.08.002zbMath1223.78001OpenAlexW2154688428MaRDI QIDQ643147

T. A. Ryckman, Katherine A. Brading

Publication date: 27 October 2011

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2007.08.002

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of optics and electromagnetic theory (78-03) History of relativity and gravitational theory (83-03)

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